Driving is a privilege and it should be treated as such. As year by year deadly car accidents happen like clockwork, drinking seems to play a major role in most of the cases but there are various ways to fight back and decrease the fatalities.
First and foremost, as an individual you should always refuse to ride along with a drunk driver; as well as never decide to get behind the wheel no matter how close or how badly you need to be somewhere. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention gathered information from all over the United States in 2014 and discovered that drinking while driving caused 31% of all car related deaths or 9,967 total people. One of the easiest ways to lower that total could be as simple as ordering an Uber, calling …show more content…
The local police departments could set up DUI check points on nights they know will have plenty of drinking and partying involved and when they do catch people be sure to have a no tolerance approach and enforce the BAC amount of 0.08%. After they catch these offenders the court system could and should implement ignition interlocks which only allows a driver to operate a vehicle once he passes a breathalyzer. All in all, you are responsible for your own actions and many who decide to hop in the car because it is no big deal face severe consequences that can be worse than some fines and a restricted license. From when I was taking drivers ed my sophomore year of High School, I distinctively remember this one video about these local teens who both suffered the most severe of repercussions. Jacqui decided to leave with the leader of Lake Travis’ football team, Reggie, and that ended up being the biggest mistake of both of their lives. Reggie had a bit too much to drink from the party and ended up crashing but unfortunately when the car caught car Jacqui’s feet were caught and she was engulfed in the flames. Reggie would wind up in jail and Jacqui became so disfigured that no plastic surgery can save her and both live with regret every day since. Dr. Samuel Ball, a psychiatrist from
First and foremost, as an individual you should always refuse to ride along with a drunk driver; as well as never decide to get behind the wheel no matter how close or how badly you need to be somewhere. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention gathered information from all over the United States in 2014 and discovered that drinking while driving caused 31% of all car related deaths or 9,967 total people. One of the easiest ways to lower that total could be as simple as ordering an Uber, calling …show more content…
The local police departments could set up DUI check points on nights they know will have plenty of drinking and partying involved and when they do catch people be sure to have a no tolerance approach and enforce the BAC amount of 0.08%. After they catch these offenders the court system could and should implement ignition interlocks which only allows a driver to operate a vehicle once he passes a breathalyzer. All in all, you are responsible for your own actions and many who decide to hop in the car because it is no big deal face severe consequences that can be worse than some fines and a restricted license. From when I was taking drivers ed my sophomore year of High School, I distinctively remember this one video about these local teens who both suffered the most severe of repercussions. Jacqui decided to leave with the leader of Lake Travis’ football team, Reggie, and that ended up being the biggest mistake of both of their lives. Reggie had a bit too much to drink from the party and ended up crashing but unfortunately when the car caught car Jacqui’s feet were caught and she was engulfed in the flames. Reggie would wind up in jail and Jacqui became so disfigured that no plastic surgery can save her and both live with regret every day since. Dr. Samuel Ball, a psychiatrist from